Untold Ref Review: Arsenal 2 – Bolton 1; Arsenal get more wrong calls (of course)

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For the Carling Cup game between Arsenal and Bolton we had ref Taylor as the ref. Not an established PL ref yet, so did he do enough to earn himself a place in the PL?

Min Type Foul from On C/NC Comment points weight
2 OTHER Arshavin Steinsson C Trip 1 1
5 OFFSIDE Bolton C 1 1
10 OTHER Muamba Frimpong C Trip 1 1
11 OFFSIDE Arsenal C 1 1
14 OTHER Squillaci Pratley C Robust challenge 1 1
14 YELLOW Squillaci C Ref could have given a yellow card for this. Ref gives Squillaci a warning as this was the first real foul that was on the borderline. An option if you stick to it 1 2
17 OTHER Throw in given to Bolton NC The ball hit the Bolton player who was standin just in the field. Should have been an Arsenal throw 0 0
18 OTHER Klasnic Vermaelen C Trip 1 1
19 OFFSIDE Arsenal NC Was level imo 0 0
19 OTHER Benayoun Kakuta C Trip, first look if there was advantage then the ref came back to the foul 1 1
23 OTHER Cahill Park NC Cahill has his arms around Park and on his shoulders when he wins the header and he holds Park to the ground 0 0
27 OTHER Squillaci Klasnic C Needles kick at the ankle 1 1
27 YELLOW Squillaci C Ref sticks to his promise towards Squillaci and gives him a yellow card 1 2
29 OFFSIDE Bolton C 1 1
31 OFFSIDE Arsenal C 1 1
34 OTHER Chamberlain Pratley NC Trip 0 0
35 OTHER Gardner Chamberlain C Trip 1 1
38 OFFSIDE Bolton C 1 1
39 OTHER Pratley C Pratley loses his footing shields the ball, goes up, goes down again, claims a foul nothing given. 1 1
40 OTHER Coquelin Gardner NC Trip not given 0 0
44 OTHER Muamba Arshavin NC Muamba played the ball with his right leg but cought Arshavin with the other left leg. Watch the second leg ref. 0 0
Half time 15 17
CORRECT 71,43% 73,91%
YELLOW 2 2 100,00
RED
PENALTY
GOAL
OTHER 2 2 100,00
4 4 100,00
OFFSIDE 6 7 85,71
Second half
47 GOAL Bolton C Correct goal 1 3
48 OTHER Davies Chamberlain NC Trip nothing given 0 0
49 OFFSIDE Arsenal C Benefit of the doubt but looked level 1 1
54 GOAL Arsenal C Correct goal 1 3
57 GOAL Arsenal C Correct goal 1 3
59 OTHER Ref Taylor Arshavin C Nothing given is correct. The ref brings Arshavin down but in fact he is the only one on the field who can bring a player down without being punished for this. 1 1
61 OFFSIDE Bolton C 1 1
62 OTHER Davies Yennaris NC Pushed him in the air 0 0
63 OTHER Frimpong Davies C Push 1 1
64 OTHER Throw in NC Vermaelen kicsk the ball against Ngog the assistant gives the throw to Bolgon 0 0
67 OTHER Throw in NC Ball goes out from an Arsenal player. Again the assistant gives it wrong 0 0
68 OTHER Gardner Chamberlain C Holding 1 1
70 OTHER Coquelin Davies C Little kick against the ankle 1 1
73 OTHER Steinsson Ryo NC Steinsson catches Ryo late deep in the Arsenal half. The ref signals advantage. Keeping possessions is not the same as advantage ref. Bolton recovers the ball and almost score 0 0
73 YELLOW Steinsson NC A late and needless kick, should have been booked 0 0
74 PENALTY Frimpong Cahill C First a little contact at the foot of Cahill, who goes further and then suddenly goes down when there was no more contact and claims a penalty. 1 3
79 OFFSIDE Arsenal C 1 1
82 OTHER Coquelin Davies C Push 1 1
89 OTHER Benayoun Gardner C Holding 1 1
90 OTHER Ngog Yennaris C Trip 1 1
2nd half score
TOTAL 14 22
% CORRECT 70,00% 75,86%
YELLOW 0 1 0,00
RED 0 0
PENALTY 1 1 100,00
GOAL 3 3 100,00
OTHER 0 1 0,00
4 6 66,67
OFFSIDE 2 2 100,00
TOTAL SCORE
TOTAL 29 39
% CORRECT 70,73% 75,00%
YELLOW 2 3 66,67
RED 0 0
PENALTY 1 1 100,00
GOAL 3 3 100,00
OTHER 2 3 66,67
8 10 80,00
OFFSIDE 8 9 88,89
Correct calls For Arsenal 14 50,00%
For Bolton 14 50,00%
Total correct calls 28
Wrong calls Against Arsenal 9 75,00%
Against Bolton 3 25,00%
Total 12

He did fine with the important decisions. So that is good.

He tried to keep the game flowing. So that is also good.

But I wondered if he would have an easy games as it happened today if (let us say) K. Davies and Robinson would have been on the field. Because waving away little things can lead to players believing they can do what they want and before you know it dangerous tackles are flying around like flies on a fresh cow dung.

His assistants had a difficult night. A few throw ins went to the wrong team and this was costly for the ref his final numbers.

The one thing I didn’t like was the fact that the wrong calls are once again negative for Arsenal.

Extra note: this review is based on the video that is available from this game. As there weren’t as many cameras as usual we had not as much angles we could look at as usual in the Emirates. Sorry if we missed something because of that.

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3 Replies to “Untold Ref Review: Arsenal 2 – Bolton 1; Arsenal get more wrong calls (of course)”

  2. I have not yet managed to see the whole match, but from what I could gather from Radio 5 there did not seem to be much joy there that our young team won.

    But, it is great to see the site back up and running!

  3. Thanks for the report. The one we are all waiting for is the one that says, ‘ARSENAL GET MORE THAN THEIR FAIR SHARE OF THE BALANCE OF THE DECISIONS!’. The ref of that match will become an Arsenal hero–a legend in his own jock strap!! Then it will be followed by the sack. We can’t have Arsenal getting a fair crack of the whip. You don’t know where it will end!!

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